The (Grant and Grant 2006) discussed the intraspecific completion between the G. fortis and its opposing competitor, the G. magnirostris. Character displacement in finches can describe the evolutionary divergence from traits needed in in organism life cycle. As proposed by Lack in the Grant and Grant paper, character displacement caused G. fortis to evolutionary develop smaller beak sizes in order to consume smaller seeds. As smaller seeds were prevalent, finches would consume those as a food source. Once diminished, large seeds were the seed of choice for them. Unfortunately, they were not able to adapt their small bill size to break these larger seed types, creating problems for the G. fortis. Therefore the hypothesis of the paper where
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With realistic models and predictions used in the experiment, Grant and Grant 2006 were able to display a convincing argument in their paper. As evolution is a difficult topic, concrete evidence and experimentation was needed in order to make the assumption that some specific trait evolved. Even though this paper explained the phenomena well, the methods section was lacking credibility, as they only looked to explain observations and predications in a sense. With evolutionary processes, further experimental methods are needed in order to justify certain results, which can serve to justify results. With certain sources of evidence, the researchers were able to conclude that beak size evolved as competition of other species evolved (Grant et al. 2006). As the paper stated, I agree that further research needs to occur in order to confirm such assumptions. Further research can be done on perhaps how other important functional traits benefit certain species and perhaps trace back and see what processes species were able to take part in before and after it evolved. This paper included how the dominant competitor causes the weaker competitor to evolve in order to adapt to ecological change, but did not consider the effects that weaker one may have on the other. Even though weaker, research can be done to show perhaps that even the presence of a competitor, whether small or large, weak or strong, can effect the food collecting methods or specific food choice of the stronger competitor. It can also look to see how large amounts of the weaker competitor can effect the life processes of the better competitor.. With further research, this paper can be supported even better by further observing different aspects of the evolutionary phenomena with different species which will allow for researchers to conclude how species
With realistic models and predictions used in the experiment, Grant and Grant 2006 were able to display a convincing argument in their paper. As evolution is a difficult topic, concrete evidence and experimentation was needed in order to make the assumption that some specific trait evolved. Even though this paper explained the phenomena well, the methods section was lacking credibility, as they only looked to explain observations and predications in a sense. With evolutionary processes, further experimental methods are needed in order to justify certain results, which can serve to justify results. With certain sources of evidence, the researchers were able to conclude that beak size evolved as competition of other species evolved (Grant et al. 2006). As the paper stated, I agree that further research needs to occur in order to confirm such assumptions. Further research can be done on perhaps how other important functional traits benefit certain species and perhaps trace back and see what processes species were able to take part in before and after it evolved. This paper included how the dominant competitor causes the weaker competitor to evolve in order to adapt to ecological change, but did not consider the effects that weaker one may have on the other. Even though weaker, research can be done to show perhaps that even the presence of a competitor, whether small or large, weak or strong, can effect the food collecting methods or specific food choice of the stronger competitor. It can also look to see how large amounts of the weaker competitor can effect the life processes of the better competitor.. With further research, this paper can be supported even better by further observing different aspects of the evolutionary phenomena with different species which will allow for researchers to conclude how species